Improving environmental quality of hybrid home and working spaces for user comfort

Abstract

Working from home will become the new norm in the future. The work-fromhome adjustment has led to significant changes in the people spend more time travelling to and from work. This saved time has now been put back into private homes. Those who work from home have more time with their families and more time to mingle with friends outside o f work. The COVID-19 epidemic inadvertently forced the worldwide workforce into a large working remotely experiment, as businesses throughout the world instantly established working from home ('WFH') agreements to sustain operations. As a result o f the Covid-19 pandemic, up to 40% o f employees and firms were forced to work from home. Other than that, the current architectural design layout space does not have proper design and lack o f technical and material support which inhibits their ability to produce optimum work. The main master plans concept for the site project is related to the concept o f urban villages which by reorganize the infrastructure, both old and new, in a manner thatintegrates all of the main functions o f each zoning and ensures efficient management around Technopark UTM. The aim o f this study is to propose a hybrid home and working space in UTM Technovation Park which focus on the implication of green element in improving the environmental quality performance towards user comfort. As a result, the objective of this research is to look into the different types o f co-working spaces and facilities that can be beneficial for just a growing start-up while working from home, to analyse the characteristics o f home office environment that fosters user comfort, and to design a hybrid home/work environment that can encourage healthy work/life balance. The fundamental research structure will be divided into four stages: determining the research topic, information gathering, data processing, and lastly, summary. Primary data will be derived from the simulation analysis result in Daylight factor to improve the environmental quality o f the space by using Velux software and secondary data were derived in existing literature reviews, journal articles, books or reading materials, other internet-based articles and case studies. The analysis will be carried out at the end of this thesis dissertation by merging ideation to improve the environm ent quality towards the hybrid home and working spaces.